Jennie
Born in Liverpool, England and raised in Brisbane, QLD. I've somehow ended up living in Sydney and loving every minute of it!
I have been with Industrial Strength Australia now for 6 years starting off in the shop as a retail sales person and have since moved up into the office acting as Sales Manager.
I have been wholesaling body jewellery and helping the show run smoothly now for 3 years. I have gained a lot of behind the scenes knowledge about the making of body jewellery and its components.
Rob
Azaria Chamberlain was not the only baby stolen by a dingo, I was as well but instead of being killed I was raised as one of their own.
Many years had passed and I was discovered by a group of bush walkers as naked as the day I was born and as wild as any animal you will find. Being taken in by a couple from the bush walking group, that had discovered me. I was a handful in the beginning and still had the urge to run wild with the pack.
After many years and some of the finest finishing schools money can buy, I was ready for the great world, so I hit the road to run wild with a different kind of beast. On the road I made a stop in a place called Edinburgh (Scotland), this is where my path crossed with some really cool people. (James, Max, and the rest of the crew at Bizarre Ink) this is the place I was to call home for a while and also the place I would learn the trade!
As it does time goes by................. and I was soon ready to hit the road again, my journey would bring me back down under and find me testing the waters in a few different places. (Even back to my old stomping ground of Canberra) Some time had passed before I met the pack at ISA and I have been running wild with the pack here every since.
Duncan
I have been involved in Body Modification in Sydney for quite a while now, I established Polymorph Body Piercing in 1992 (Sydneys first piercing Studio which I sold March 2005) and work actively as a body piercer from 1992 -2000
But I have closed that chapter of my life to concentrate solely on Industrial Strength Australia (retail and wholesale) we purpose built this shop in 2001 to have a street shop with a upscale feel welcoming all comers, my background in manufacturing body jewellery has schooled me to only stock the highest quality jewellery with optimum finishing.
My staff are some of the most innovative artists in Australia and we are constantly working to keep ahead of changes in the industry anticipating our customers needs in everything from jewellery selection to safety.
I have travelled annually to Las Vegas every year from 1999-2007 to attend the APP (Association Of Professional Piercers http://safepiercing.org ) yearly conference and have been a guest speaker for seminars and worked at the Convention Expo.
I also like to travel (esp SE Asia /Japan / USA), collect tattoos (though am fast running out of space), try and improve my fitness, eat in Chinatown, make juice, ride motorcycles and hang out with my friends and family and I usually find there is not near enough hours in the day